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Lot 28
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Otto Dix

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
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Description

  • Otto Dix
  • Der Krieg (Karsch 70 - 119; and 120)
  • From an edition of 70
  • Drypoint and aquatint
  • portfolio overall: 547 by 507 mm 21 5/8 by 20 in
  • Soldat und Nonne: plate: 195 by 137 mm 7 3/4 5 3/8 in
The complete portfolio, comprising 50 aquatints and etchings and the five original paper folders, which each contained ten prints, and Soldat und Nonne (K. 120), each 1924, signed in pencil, numbered 47/70 and annotated in sequential order within each individual paper folder, K. 120 numbered 33/70, the portfolio on laid White-BSB paper (except for Relaisposten and Soldat und Nonne on wove paper), printed by O. Felsing, Charlottenburg, published by Karl Nierendorf, Berlin, each hinged to sheets, the mount sheets bound in elaborate contemporary leather covers and contained in a contemporary leather portfolio box (51 prints)

Condition

The prints are in good condition, with full margins except for Verwundetentransport im Houthulster Wald, which was trimmed by 1/4 of an inch. Stray ink at the periphery of most sheets. The verso, with inconspicuous stray ink and surface soiling at the periphery of the sheets. Additional imperfection to individual prints include: Sterbender Soldat and Schädel with faint windows of pale light-stain surrounding the images. The bottom sheet edges of Kantine in Haplincourt and Maschinengewehrzug geht vor are whitened. Time-stain at the top or left extreme sheet edges of the following prints: Verlassene Stellung bei Vis-en-Artois, Totenataz Anno 17, Toter in Schlamm, Die Trümmer von Langemark, Gefunden beim Grabendurchstich (Auberive), Lens wird mit Bomben belegt, Frontsoldat in Brüssel, II Die Irrsinnige con St. Marie-à-Py, Besuche bei Madame Germaine in Méricourt, Zerschossene, Maschinengewehrzug geht vor, Die Sappenposten haben nachts das Feuer zu unterhalten and Appell der Zurüuckgekehten.
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Catalogue Note

The collection of the late Robert and Elizabeth Haskell resided between dramatic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Little Washington and the small town/city life of Martinsville Virginia.  Robert Haskell was the publisher of the Martinsville Bulletin and also served on the board of the Public Welfare Foundation in Washington D.C., an organization founded in 1947 to ensure that people in need receive fundamental rights and opportunities.  Elizabeth Haskell served on the Martinsville City Council as well as in the cabinet of then Governor L. Douglas Wilder as his Secretary of Natural Resources from 1990 to 1994.  The author of many books and articles on the environment, Mrs. Haskell was also a director and officer of the Martinsville Bulletin and in 2005, she was recognized as the Outstanding Virginian by the General Assembly.

Their homes revealed the sense of joy that the Haskell’s clearly took in putting together and living with their collection, a shared passion that is evident in the quality of each work and in the many relationships among the works.